The Lake Never Tells by Alex Tully

Author:Alex Tully [Tully, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-21T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

ZOE

Zoe made her way down to the water, from the spot where she went ballistic on Crawford. She couldn’t go back through the party and risk seeing Heather, or anyone else.

She had completely lost it—and she knew she had to get out of there, away from the whole scene as fast as she could. That pompous, egotistical, cold-hearted, waste of space, was trying to make excuses for putting all the Sunny Shores residents out on their asses, just so he could add a little bit of money to his fortune.

She ran down the beach, toward the trailer park, but slowed down once she saw the people gathered out by the dock.

It was a yearly tradition on the Fourth, everyone would bring their coolers and blankets and have a picnic before watching the fireworks. Although Sunny Shores was a crappy little trailer park with a crappy little dock, it still had one of the best views on the entire peninsula.

She saw Parker and Shirley, the Harts, and even Frankie with his six-pack slung over his shoulder. It would be the last time they all spent the Fourth of July together, and the rage that had been burning inside her quickly turned into overwhelming feelings of sadness and hopelessness.

These people weren’t just like family, they were her family, in the truest sense of the word. It was so unfair—Marty Crawford had complete control over their lives and there was nothing she could do about it.

The tears welled up in her eyes and she quickly ran up the gravel drive before anyone noticed her. When she got inside her trailer, she went straight to her bed, flopped down, and buried her face in her pillow.

And then she began sobbing—a deep, raw, release of emotion. She thought about her life, her pathetic, tiny, insignificant life. Her mother was a child, her father was a stranger. The only family she ever knew—the residents of Sunny Shores—would very soon be broken apart and scattered in different directions.

Her job was gone. Even if she wasn’t fired for her meltdown, she sure as hell wasn’t going back to Crystal Waters—ever. She’d probably have to get a job at a fast-food place, and she’d have to ride her bike, and she wouldn’t make nearly as much money…

And what about the whole Ethan situation? Her boyfriend, if she could even call him that, who was cute and sweet, was leaving at the end of summer.

Zoe’s face hurt—her whole head was full of congestion from crying. She took a deep breath and sat up on her bed. She didn’t want to think about it anymore. And she sure as hell wasn’t in the mood for fireworks.

What she’d really like to do was get into Frankie’s boat and just go—speed out into the darkness—away from the fireworks, away from people, away from everything. But it wasn’t an option, at least not until later.

“Zoe!”

She heard the yell from outside her door—it was Ethan.

At any other time she would’ve jumped up to greet him, but she honestly just wanted to be left alone.

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